On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:13, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > How do I tell in perl-speak (ie without rewriting the whole thing in
> > Java) that the mount point succeeded. 
> > 
> > I'm happy to put a file on the remote HDD and search for it's existence
> > or some such.
> > 
> > If the mount fails, the root filesystem on the server fills as the
> > backup proceeds to /mnt/remotedisk. Aarrrgh.
> 
> How about grepping the output of 'mount' for the mountpoint? That's how I'd
> do it in bash. :-)
> 

You can use the return codes - just like $? in shell programming.

Example :
if ( system("mount -t smbfs remoteserver:/mntpoint /mnt 2>/dev/null
1>/dev/null"))
{
        do_something;
}
else
{
        do_something_else
}

-- 
Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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